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Team Lead

Daniil Trofimov

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Professional Summary

Team Lead and Backend Developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience building web applications and backend systems. Experienced in leading engineering teams, conducting technical interviews, mentoring new hires, and guiding architecture and delivery.

Strong expertise in Go, PHP, and Node.js, with frontend experience that supports effective cross-functional delivery. Skilled at translating business requirements into release plans, improving delivery through automated testing, CI/CD, and internal tooling, and helping teams build reliable systems they can confidently own.

Experience

Mindall

Dubai, UAE · Remote

Ecosystem of products for housing, real estate agencies, property management, lead processing, employee management, and deal lifecycle automation.

Team Lead

  • Led a team of 4 engineers, reported directly to the CTO, planned releases, and distributed features and tasks across the team.
  • Led backend delivery across a platform of 30+ microservices, setting patterns for federated GraphQL services, authorization, and event-driven integration over NATS and JetStream.
  • Owned and delivered the Stripe subscription lifecycle across billing, checkout, webhooks, trials, plan changes, and failure handling.
  • Interviewed backend candidates, onboarded new hires, and mentored developers through architecture and code reviews and delivery planning.

Backend Developer

  • Designed a load-resilient database architecture and a rule-based lead-routing workflow with availability-aware broker assignment for a real estate CRM.
  • Built an authentication and authorization service with JWT access/refresh tokens, Google OAuth2, WebAuthn, and row-level access policies.
  • Revived automated testing, introduced a code style linter, and set both up in GitLab CI/CD.
  • Integrated with Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, ChatGPT and multiple other external services.

ViaMobi

Moscow, Russia · Hybrid

Provider of services delivered in cooperation with Eastern European and West Asian mobile operators.

Backend Developer

  • Implemented a monitoring system for partner traffic regulation that calculated subscription KPIs and blocked unreliable sources automatically.
  • Replaced a high-load database with 20M+ records, reducing select query latency from ~3s to ~100ms.
  • Maintained the billing core and delivered numerous integrations with mobile operators and traffic sources.
  • Developed scoreboard ranking logic for an educational platform.

Black Wall Group

Moscow, Russia · On-site

Digital project studio specializing in a wide range of projects, with a particular focus on e-commerce.

Team Lead

  • Stepped into the Team Lead role, coordinated 2 frontend developers, and owned backend delivery for an e-commerce delivery-service integration.
  • Gathered client requirements, translated them into implementation tasks, and coordinated delivery across multiple logistics partners.

Full-stack Developer

  • Configured full-text product search for an online shop using the Sphinx engine.
  • Developed a large part of the back office across frontend and backend components.
  • Built a real-time audience polling system for a festival.

Skills & Expertise

Primary Stack

Go · PHP (Laravel) · TypeScript (Node.js / Vue.js) · Technical Leadership

Data & Messaging

MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Elasticsearch · Sphinx · ClickHouse · Redis · RabbitMQ · NATS · Apache Kafka

Platform

Linux · Git · Docker · Docker Compose · CI/CD · Nginx · Docker Swarm · Kubernetes

Architecture & Quality

REST · GraphQL · WebSockets · Unit testing · Integration testing · E2E testing · Prometheus · InfluxDB · Grafana

Leadership

Release planning · Mentoring · Work breakdown & delegation · Code review · Architecture decision-making · Hiring & interviewing

Cloud

AWS · DigitalOcean · Cloudflare · Self-hosting

AI

Claude Code · Codex · OpenCode · OpenRouter API

Languages

Russian

Native

English

Fluent

Italian

Pre-Intermediate

German

Basic